From: "Seger, Rebecca" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 09:10:33 -0400

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 8, 2012

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS PARTNERS WITH OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TO
MAKE SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH CONTENT AVAILABLE VIA THE UPSO PLATFORM

Chicago, August 8, 2012—University of Chicago Press is pleased to
announce it will partner with Oxford University Press (OUP) to launch
Chicago Scholarship Online on OUP’s University Press Scholarship
Online (UPSO) platform to take advantage of a fully enabled XML
environment with cutting-edge search and discovery functionality*.

“The University of Chicago Press is excited to be working with OUP to
bring our titles to scholars and researchers through the UPSO
platform,” said Garrett Kiely, Director, University of Chicago Press.
“We have been impressed with the professionalism and cooperative
approach of the team at OUP. As the UPSO platform continues to evolve
to satisfy the needs of the global academic community, we are
confident that this partnership will support our core mission to make
the work of our authors as widely available as possible.”

Responding to increased demand for online scholarly content, UPSO
streamlines the research journey by making disparately published
monographs easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully
cross-searchable via one online platform.  Research that previously
would have required users to jump between a variety of resources and
disconnected websites can now be concentrated through a single search
engine.

UPSO offers an individually-branded home for monographs from each
participating university press just as it has done for Oxford
Scholarship Online while allowing highly intuitive tools to deep
search across all the content in the program. As such, UPSO will be
the premier online research tool—for scholars, teachers, graduate and
undergraduate students—and an essential resource for all academic
libraries.

The benefits of UPSO for academics, libraries, and partner presses include:

* The highest quality scholarly content across 24 subject areas

* A vast and growing number of titles (10,000+ to date) with abstracts
and keywords at both the book and chapter level for each title

* XML-formatted content, which provides deep tagging and better search results.

* The ability to download content on the fly to PDF

* A fully cross-referenced and cross-searchable platform, with
clickable citations from bibliographies and footnotes, including
OpenURL and DOI-linking support

·* Streamlined research through a single online platform

* Easy integration into library systems and updated frequently with new content

* Full customer support services as well as flexibility and choice in
purchasing models

* Optimized functionality for mobile devices

* Increased discoverability and usage of university press scholarly materials*

“The animating impulse behind University Press Scholarship Online is
to create a friendly pathway to high-quality content for scholars and
students, and to provide a publisher-centric service to our fellow
presses,” says Niko Pfund, President, Oxford University Press USA.
“Today we are thrilled to welcome the University of Chicago Press—by
any reckoning one of the very finest publishers in the land—to UPSO.
Chicago’s partnership with UPSO will benefit researchers across a wide
variety of disciplines and marks a significant step in the migration
of academic books online.”
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* Visits from mobile and tablet devices (iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and
Android) have dramatically increased over the last year. iPad is
consistently the most popular device used. For instance, UPSO
experienced nearly a 5,000% YOY increase in visits from iPad users
from March 2011-March 2012, following a relaunch in September 2011.

For more information, please contact:

Christian Purdy
  Levi Stahl
Director of Publicity
Promotions Director
Oxford University Press USA                            University of
Chicago Press
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The University of Chicago Press has been publishing books and journals
for scholars, students, and general readers since 1892. The Books
Division has published over eleven thousand books since the Press was
founded. It has more than five thousand books in print at the present
time, including such well-known works as The Chicago Manual of Style,
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Norman
Maclean’s A River Runs through It, F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom,
and Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research,
scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's
largest university press with the widest global presence. It currently
publishes more than 6,000 new publications a year, has offices in
around fifty countries, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide.
It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing
program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines,
bibles, music, textbooks, business books, dictionaries and reference
works, and academic journals.

Rebecca Seger
Director, Institutional Sales, Americas
Oxford University Press
New York, NY  10016
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